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Test 7 · Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole

Dad sits down slowly after mowing: «Oof, my back's killing me». What is a kind answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad, back · What happens: sit down, mow, kill, be · To what, where: Oof, me, kind answer

This is test 7 of lesson 44 «Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: Dad sits down slowly after mowing: «Oof, my back's killing me».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sits	compound:prt
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 sits	advmod
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 mowing	mark
6	mowing	mow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sits	advcl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Oof	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 Oof	punct
9	Oof	oof	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mowing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 killing	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 back	nmod:poss
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 killing	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 killing	aux
14	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 Oof	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 killing	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 Oof	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	present	Dad					slowly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mow	gerund	Dad not said here	Oof					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oof=Patient
3	kill in a quote	present · progressive	my back	me					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What is a kind answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 answer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a kind answer					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Offer him a cuppa and a sit-down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Offer	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cuppa	det
4	cuppa	cuppa	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Offer	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 down	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 down	det
7	sit	sit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 down	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sit	punct
9	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cuppa	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	imperative	you not said here	a cuppa and a sit down	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal cuppa=Theme

Option 2

Ring 999 for an ambulance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	999	999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Ring	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 ambulance	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ambulance	det
5	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	imperative	you not said here	999				for a ambulance	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 999=Theme

Option 3

Tell him to go and mow next door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mow	cc
6	mow	mow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 go	conj
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mow	infinitive		next door					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 4

Say it's rude to talk about killing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rude	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rude	xcomp
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 killing	mark
8	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 talk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					rude property	tree rules
3	talk	to-infinitive							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	kill	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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